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Reckless Move for Naval Blockade against DPRK Assailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 15 (KCNA) -- The United States is going to stage together with the Japanese reactionaries a joint naval exercise in the waters off Japan late in October, pursuant to PSI. PSI means a step to isolate and blockade the DPRK. Branding the DPRK's increase of military power for self-defence as "proliferation of weapons of mass destruction", the U.S. has called for an embargo on the export of goods for duel use. Not content with this, it is plugging other countries into its operation to realize an international blockade against the DPRK.
    Commenting on this fact, Rodong Sinmun Friday says:
    The U.S. has so far conducted ten joint naval exercises with armed forces of its satellite countries involved. The projected exercise is aimed to showcase "international cooperation" targeted against the DPRK and draw its neighboring countries into this move in a bid to escalate its policy to isolate and blockade the DPRK.
    This exercise assumes more dangerous nature as it will be staged against the background of the increasing tension on the Korean peninsula. It will be an action of denying dialogue and wrecking peace.
    What the U.S. seeks is not peace but escalating tension in Northeast Asia including the Korean peninsula and the soon-to-be-staged exercise indicates that the U.S. imperialists' strategy to put military pressure on the DPRK and blockade and stifle it by force is inching close to the phase of its implementation.
    The DPRK cannot but make a case of the Japanese authorities' move to host the exercise at the U.S. instigation.
    Such move is quite contrary to the spirit of the DPRK-Japan Pyongyang Declaration as the exercise is targeted against the DPRK.
    The use of force is not a monopoly of the U.S. and its allies. The army and people of the DPRK will remain on high alert and take a strong counteraction against the enemies' moves to isolate and blockade it.